Literacy

Literacy

[|Met Any Good Authors Lately?]  [|Classroom author visits can happen via Skype (here's a list of those who do it for free)]



 What happens when Reading meets Web 2. A great wiki with resources for all elements of reading - Phonemic Awareness, Phonics Vocabulary Comprehension and Fluency http://techtoolsforreading.wikispaces.com/


 * __ Online Educational Games __**

  []Utah Education Network interactive learning activities. Everything for Grade 3-7 from spelling to writing to reading

 Online activities and interactive Learning from Scholastic @http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp

50 one stop learning activities 15 - 30 minutes  []

 Myths and Legends

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  A directory of online games from proof reading to spelling  [|http:] [|//] [|www.stpaulsmtl.wa.edu.au/teachers/games.html]

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[] //**Into the Book**// is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Watch our engaging 15-minute videos and try the online interactive activities. //**Behind the Lesson**// provides information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos and explore the <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> [|Animal Characteristic Game] Easy online game for kids to classify characteristics of different types of animals


 * __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Writing Websites __**

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|Telescopic Text] is a very simple website that could be very handy in literacy classes. The site starts off with a very simple sentence: I made tea. Each time you click on a word, the sentence expands adding adjectives, adverbs, and makes the sentence more interesting.

Build Your Wildself



Writing Fix for Kids

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> - a guide to making informed decisions on leveling the children's writing in line with VeLs and Naplan

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> [|Visual Dictionary] Discover a world of visual information. Find definitions and detailed images for themes, words, concepts and processes. Free content for your blog (from [|Connect Teacher])

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">[] Create a PicLit - drag and drop words to write poems… the site matches images with words to the essence, story and meaning of the picture (from [|Connect Teacher])

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[] - A link to online storybooks

[] free audio books

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> A selection of well known stories from Stellaluna to Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> [] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> The Best Online Children's Classics By Title 538 Books in All Genres

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[] An online story book site and more

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">[|Audio Books for Kids]

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__**Comic Makers**__





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__**<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> Interesting sites **__

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Using Graphic Organizers in Literacy

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> My TPL <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> http://addressingthegap.wikispaces.com/

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> [|This is sand (link below in post)]Posted on June 8th, 2009 by marynabadenhorst ..............Give it a go. It's great for speaking and Listening

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> I was reading a Grade 1 teacher’s blog pages recently ([] and [|http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/index.html]), and came upon this fun tool. It is an online program called “This is sand” ([|link to http://thisissand.com/]), where you can create beautiful pictures by dropping ’sand’ in different colours, onto the screen. (The colours are changed by pressing ‘c’ on the key board, and then choosing the colour you want.) Afterwards you can upload your creations to the gallery, so they can be viewed online. Of course, you could also printscreen the image, and copy it to Paint or Word, and then save it to your computer as a picture. This picture can then be uploaded to your own blog or digital portfolio.......